While many security advocates would likely argue that today’s organizations still have lots of work to do with their endpoint patch management practices, many organizations have automated their Windows system updating procedures and are slowly dialing in their third-party application patching. But even with that progress being made, there is a whole rag-tag class of systems–many of them extremely critical–that frequently run unpatched and ridden with vulnerabilities.

Some of them lay exposed because vendors are slow putting out patches, others because the updating process could threaten mission critical operations with downtime and still others because administrators simply aren’t paying attention. Whatever the reason, systems like the five below must be added to patch management policies lest organizations risk costly compromises.
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